Don’t Team with Chow Shoemoney or Problogger
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Don’t Team with John Chow, Shoemoney, or Problogger, it won’t grow your blog.
Should you kiss other Top Blogger’s butt? Why? You hope to get a link? Forget about it. It won’t happen. There are hundreds of people just like you kissing their butt everyday. All you want is a link and you think that if you just say 1 more nice thing or link to their site one more time it will get it.
WAKE UP! You might as well go buy a lottery ticket if you think this will happen. You stand a better chance getting a link if you write out against them than you do if you kiss their butt. HEAR me right, 
don’t go be negative and all. If you want a link from me, an attack doesn’t stand a chance. In fact I am opposite of them since I am not all that large and this leads me to my point.
If you kiss a mid-level bloggers butt you stand a good chance of getting a link. You link me, I may link you back when I have a reason to link you.
So what is the lesson here? You see Darren Rowse, John Chow, and Jeremy Schoemaker talking and linking each other up? They promote each other. They have deals, contests, and links between each other. You want some of that? Then work a deal with someone more your size. Grow with each other.
Get a team of like-sized bloggers and grow together. Reach out to them, and they are many times more like to help you as you help each other. Do you get what I am saying?
The big guys won’t help you grow (Darren is an exception, but he can’t help everyone). Most big guys just like in business (blogging is a business) will try to keep you down because you are competition. Little guys help each other to get where they are going.
Reach out today and do some teaming. It would be great to team with John Chow, but it ain’t happenin’. Be real and grow your blog with others. It is simple, but it takes time. Do what I am saying and in time, Jeremy Schoemaker and the others will be coming to you.
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You know what? I agree because it makes sense!
True. Here’s the fact for new bloggers…if you want to get to the top, work hard at the bottom…those at the top are your models, make them your inspiration, be motivated by them but do not team up with them it’s not that you get a link from them as moremerchant say’s but you are tend to lose your visitor too! you are still learning while probloggers,john chow and shoemoney are Bigtime bloggers.
I was actually thinking about trying to work up a unique way to get a link out of one of those guys. Thanks for the insight here….making me rethink things a bit and go a different route.
It sure make some sense!
Nice read
Great stuff! I am actually going to give this one a try.. it has some real promise out there.
I hope you just don’t stick to being against them just because you actually got a link from shoemoney.
Hey Blogger$ this site is about many things one of them being blogging tips.
I am in no way against any of them. I consider Darren a friend and have for the past 5 or so years.
There is a lesson to be learned though in all of this. Build your own team! The big guys already have one and don’t need you.
You need others like you and this is how you grow.
bloggerdollar, it’s not being against in any way though…it’s just a reality and giving us an idea which is true not being a kiss ass.
I don’t agree at all. I’ve got several links from Problogger and John Chow. You simply have to make it beneficial for them to link to you.
Many of us have received a lot of links from the guys. Darren is very good about trying to take care of his 33,000 feed readers and how many daily site visitors? he is good, but not that good.
You will do even better if you put your time into people equal with you. This way you can grow large with them.
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that has been a GREAT read and i’m not just saying that. i think i knew this already but wanted to hear it from somebody else. i think that’s part of the reason why i don’t really go to the john chows and shoemoney sites and stuff. there’s TOO many people hounding them for stuff and why would they return a comment, email or whatever back to me?
like i said, i think this is a great read and could not agree with it more!
Jay
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